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Subject: Since we are in stupid question mode.
From: tedroche-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Ted Roche)
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:33:01 -0500
In-reply-to: <1292538605.4730.3.camel-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
References: <4D0A7F5A.4090405@blu.org> <1292538605.4730.3.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Bill Horne <ehorne-zY4eFNvK5D9If6P1QZMOBw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> That should be an easy fix: just seach-and-replace all <Winblow-1252>
> non-breaking space characters with "& nbsp ;" (remove two spaces).
>

A quick Google suggests:

perl -pe 's/\xA0/ /g' infile > outfile

Cite: http://www.tech-karma.com/forum/other-operating-systems/unix/script-remove-non-breaking-space-file

Though for an HTML file, you'll likely want to use the
ampersand-nbsp-semicolon as Bill suggests (or
ampersand-hash-160-semicolon if you need properly XML-escaped
characters) substituting for the blank space between the slashes.

References:
- Since we are in stupid question mode.
  - From: gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)
- Since we are in stupid question mode.
  - From: ehorne-zY4eFNvK5D9If6P1QZMOBw at public.gmane.org (Bill Horne)

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